UK View of US Blogging

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-major news organisations are rolling out blogs of their own, but in the past 12 months the influence of bloggers over their print, television and radio counterparts has grown massively

-this year’s Democratic National Convention (DNC) issued press accreditation to political bloggers

-web journalism has started to influence the mainstream media. Take America’s newest radio network, Air America Radio whose hosts are armed to the teeth with hard, up-to-the second facts to support their relentless candidate bashing. Their sources? Blogs. And the blogging bloggers who blog them. The effect of this is to guarantee a large web-savvy audience for the station, an audience for whom it is perfectly natural to visit the shows’ official blogs and to comment on what they’re hearing, as they’re hearing it.

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